Manifolding pattern sheet



Feb. 23, 1937.

A. VARREN MANIFOLDING PATTERN SHEET Filed Jan. 2, 1934 J van for Patented Feb. 23, 1937 PATENT OFFICE MANIFOLDING PATTERN SHEET Alexander Varren, Essen, Germany, assignor to Adolf Nathan, Essen, Germany Application January 2,

1934, Serial No. 704,916

In Germany August 9, 1933 2 Claims.

The invention relates to pattern sheets for painting books, cut-paper play things and similar painting and drawing purposes, and has more particularly for its object to improve a tracing sheet by means of which in the well-known manner a drawing is transmitted to a paper sheet put thereunder by tracing the lines of the drawing with pencil. In so doing, hitherto a non-tracing, frequently transparent pattern of the drawing has been used together with a separate carbon paper sheet put between the pattern and the paper sheet to which the drawing is to be transmitted.

This article is notably simplified and new possibilities of utilization are afforded by the pattern sheet according to the invention being fitted on the back with a traceable carbon impression of the mirror-image of the drawing to be transmitted.

In order that the invention maybe clearly understood and readily carried into effect, an embodiment of the same is illustrated by way of example in the drawing which shows the invention as applied to a painting book for children.

In the drawing Figure 1 shows the painting book in open state, and Figure 2 a pattern sheet, seen from the back.

The pattern sheets I stitched in the book she a drawing consisting of simple lines. The drawing is not printed on to the front side of the sheet,

as usual, but on the back, so as to appear positively when seen from the front side. In order to enable tracing of the drawing with pencil on the front side, the paper is adequately transparent. This affords the possibility to use the pattern sheet itself as painting sheet, by applying colours to the faces outlined by the transparent contours of the drawing, or by distinctly tracing merely the lines of the drawing on the front side with pencil or ink. To this end the paper of the pattern sheet is made sufficiently thick and otherwise adapted to receive colour.

The carbon impression on the back is not necessarily of a solid colour such as throughout in black or blue, but may be of many colours and more particularly the lines of the drawing at the face portions have any colours which are to be applied to the faces outlined by these lines. In Figure 2, for example, the wheels 4, the steering gear 5 and the part ID are hatched to represent black, the body 6 is hatched to represent blue, the parts 8 and 9 of the picture are hatched to represent brown and the part I is hatched to represent orange. The lines on the pattern are made 5 comparatively thick, for example 2-3 mm, in

order to enable even an unskilled child to easily trace the contours of the drawing and easily permit repeated use of the pattern.

When the drawing is traced on to a white paper sheet, then, if the carbon impression is 5 made in coloured lines, the transmitted lines are likewise coloured so that the child is enabled to colour without any further direction the correspondingly outlined face portions with the respective correct colour. Again, if the transmitted picture or its individual portions are to be cut out, correspondingly coloured pieces of pasteboard can be put thereunder.

When stitched in a painting book, the pattern sheets preferably are provided with a line of perforations 2 so that they can also be used outside the book or replaced, if exhausted. If the pattern sheets are stitched in a book, thick opaque sheets 3 are likewise stitched-in alternatively, which on the side turned to the carbon impres- 20 sion of the pattern sheet are white or coloured in order to receive the traced drawing or show a background adapted to the drawing to be transmitted. On their back these receiving paper sheets preferably bear an inscription which has 25 reference to the drawing or picture to be applied to the following sheet. The receiving sheets may be of thin paper or of paste-board, in order to permit cutting of the transmitted drawing.

The described painting book is found to be ca- 30 pable of manifold uses. So, for instance, the child may simply trace on the front side the transparent drawing in black or with a coloured pencil, and in so doing the child acquires greater personal independence as to the comprehension 35 and interpretation of the respective lines and shapes, than by tracing normally printed lines. Furthermore, the child may apply colour to the front side of the pattern or transmit the drawing in coloured lines to the intermediate sheet and cover the respective face portions with colours or cut out the intermediate sheet and use the cut figures, such as soldiers or the like, for playing with, or the child may stick the cut figures or portions of the drawing on to the front side of 45 the pattern sheet to which end the intermediate sheet may be gmnmed on its back.

Preferably the drawings of an entire painting book are selected in such a manner as to relate to a single subject-matter, for example trains, automobiles, a village, life of people, soldiers, or animals, so that the child by cutting out the individual figures can prepare a set of standing figures, such as a poultry yard, a railway station, a battle.

I claim:-

1. A pattern sheet consisting of a sheet of flexible translucent material bearing on the reverse side indicia made by application thereto of manifolding material and which are visible from the obverse side through the material of the sheet whereby to serve as a pattern for manifolding purposes.

2. A pattern sheet consisting of a sheetof flexible translucent material bearing on the reverse side indicia made by application thereto of manifolding material and which are visible from the obverse side through the material of the sheet whereby to serve as a pattern for manifolding purposes, the said manifolding indicia being in various colours.

ALEXANDER VARREN. 

